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A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
There is an alternative out there to the globalized world of agribusiness, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and processed packaged food, one based on harvesting and using local, especially wild, foods and re-weaving them into our...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 197-200
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History 1940-1980
Historian Patrick Wolfe has foregrounded the contradictory condition of Indigenous labour within Euro-American settlement by arguing that mythic narratives of settler diligence coexisted with a heavy reliance on colonized Indigenous labour. As he observes in...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 162-164
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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Common Bonds: A History of Greater Vancouver Community Credit Union
The credit union movement in British Columbia is, in a way, a legacy of the Great Depression. When banks and governments were unwilling or unable to respond appropriately to economic crisis, mutual aid arrangements became...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 172-173
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Aboriginal Populations: Social, Demographic, and Epidemiological Perspectives
This substantial collection brings interdisciplinary approaches to a range of questions on Aboriginal populations. Aiming to bring about a “comprehensive understanding of the social demographic transformation of the Canadian Aboriginal population” (ix), the contributors review...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 147-149
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He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga’a Land Claims Award
Like others over the course of history who have influenced fundamental human rights change, Frank Arthur Calder seems to have been born to that grand purpose. Calder’s Nisga’a elders accurately foresaw that he was destined...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 121-22
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Strange Visitors: Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876
This is a timely, thoughtful, and useful collection of primary documents on the history of the interactions among Indigenous people, non-Indigenous people, and the Canadian state. Given what is currently available, it will be invaluable...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 118-120
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Closing Time: Prohibition, Rum-Runners, and Border Wars
The prohibition era has attracted much interest for generations. The American story — undoubtedly because of the violence, criminal involvement, and Hollywood exposure — has always overshadowed the somewhat milder, more complicated, and less linear...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 130-31
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Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia
Patricia E. Roy’s Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia examines the political career of one of the province’s most significant premiers. Born in New Westminster in 1870 and educated at New Westminster High School and...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 174-77
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John Scouler (c.1804-1871) Scottish Naturalist: A Life, with Two Voyages
Less celebrated than his friend David Douglas, John Scouler was nevertheless an important scientific traveller to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nootka Sound, Haida Gwaii, and Observatory Inlet in 1825. Although Douglas has been...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 159-160
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Father Pandosy: Pioneer of Faith in the Northwest
Over the course of a ministry that spanned nearly half a century, Catholic missionary Jean-Charles Pandosy witnessed and participated in one of the most dramatic regional transformations in human history. Whereas Pandosy described his mission...